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Certainly, policy clearly states that:
Articles about counties should not be split up and should not be disambiguation pages. They should treat the counties as one entity which has changed its boundaries with time. We should not take the minority position that they still exist with the former boundaries.
G-Man 21:01, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The 1972 legislation clearly refered to "administrative counties" as "counties" therefore the use of the term "administrative counties" is obsolete. Legally speaking administrative counties are counties, you may not like this fact but that is how it stands.
This also assumes that traditional counties still legally exist, a view which is far from universally accepted. G-Man 19:12, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
As has been pointed out the 1888 legislation has been overwritten several times, so whether 'traditional counties' still have any legal existance or not is anyone's guess. It is certainly far from the ironclad fact you claim it is. I dont know how long your going to keep up this absurd pretence that medieval county boundaries still exist unchanged in the present tense. If you insist upon adding this claim then it should be stated as an opinion not as a fact G-Man 22:17, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Secondly, this article was using a perfectly sensible compromise of using the ceremonial county for geographic reference. I really dont care what you say, everyone else seems to think they exist.
See this: http://www.tellmeabout.thelocalchannel.co.uk/home.aspx?p=0&m=86
Which states
Ceremonial County – These are areas for which a Lord Lieutenant acts as the Queen’s Deputy – every Administrative County has a ceremonial County of the same name, but the ceremonial county is in many cases larger, as it takes in areas served by Unitary Authorities. (So, for example, the Ceremonial County of Hampshire includes the area administered by Hampshire County Council, plus the Unitary Authority areas of Portsmouth & Southampton.)
And interestingly also states:
Traditional Counties – These are counties that have no LEGAL or administrative standing, but still represent what many people continue to think of as “Counties” (These include Rutland, Berkshire, Herefordshire, Bristol, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire
Pehaps you should also read this: http://jonathan.rawle.org/counties/hist.htm
Which states:
There is much debate as to what constitutes a 'county' today. Really, this is a matter of personal choice and opinion. Some people use the names of unitary authorities as counties, others advocate the use of the so called 'historical counties' which EXISTED before the 1974 reorganisation.
That is merely your interpretation of the law 80.255. As I have clearly demonstrated to you many well informed and knowledgeable people obviously do not share your view that traditional counties still 'exist' (In what form exactly you think that they still exist I really dont know). I am no legal expert but your claim that just because the traditional counties were not formally abolished means that the legislation still applies sounds mightily dodgy to me. The fact that you are refering to reports from 1911 merely reveals the anachronistic nature of your arguments G-Man 11:53, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I have protected this page, as a request was made to Secretlondon, who is not available at present. I have protected the current version. Please continue the discussion on the talk page with a view to resolution of the debate. Reference to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) may prove useful, and in particular Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places) with the discussion which produce those guidelines. Warofdreams 14:25, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
(Sorry for the curious edit description; as I sent "Added links", my browser autofilled the rest from some previous page!) Bill 08:42, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I think there should be a link in here somewhere since it is quite a major feature of the county. Not sure where to add it though, so if anyone would like to give it a go... Robotmannick 10:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I've parked this at the bottom of the page for now. Unfortunately twin infoboxes are pushing the text way down the page (at least in IE 6.0) and the article appears blank unless the reader realises they need to scroll right down.
One solution might be to merge the infoboxes, but there may be other ways of dealing with this. I've experimented a bit but not found a quick solution. Does anyone have any other way of fixing it? Chris Jefferies 07:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Owain, what browser are you using? I'm running IE 6.0 under Windows XP, if you're not seeing the issue at all it would be interesting to know why. Mrsteviec's remark 'Where this has occured on other articles' suggests it's not an unusual problem. Chris Jefferies 08:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, definitely browser dependent, then. I've just tried Mozilla 1.6 on Win2K and it's fine too. Chris Jefferies 09:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I know some towns/counties have this as a section, not sure how many there are for Glos. However, Sir Chay Blyth (although he was born in Scotland) currently lives in Box, which doesn't currently have a page of it's own. Kert01 14:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
There are many famous residents (allegedly!!!), starting with Charles and Anne of royal fame, Kate Winslet (Actress), Arthur Negus (antiques) actually lived in Cheltenham, Gustav Holst (composer), Sarah Siddons (Actress), Sharron Davies (Swimmer), Liz Hurley (actress/model), Chris Beardshaw (Gardening expert), Ann Robinson (Quiz host), Laurence Llewellyn Bowen (designer).
Hope this helps —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.19.33 ( talk) 19:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi; I just cribbed a bio of a Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, the Hon. Clement Francis Cornwall, who was born in Gloucestershire, but at a place called Ashcroft, which I don't find on your towns list here, or on the list page, or on the South Gloucestershire page. I do find it on a google search as an Ashcroft Road in Gloucestershire. Is this an older or smaller village or locality that's off the beaten track or otherwise obscure today, or has its name changed? Just wondering about dab'ing the link to it if there is one; currently to the Ashcroft disambiguation page, where I've put a mention of "Ashcroft, Gloucestershire" without actually knowing if there is one (ahem) other than because of my source (publ. 1890). It's important to the Cornwall story as the name of the ranch - where English culture was pursued in fortu, with fox-hunting (well, coyote-hunting with foxhounds) and the main venue for horse racing in the BC Interior - was the Ashcroft Manor, and the nearby town of Ashcroft has the same namesake, or rather being named because of the ranch, which predated the town y'see...though just barely...1860s; there's also an Ashcroft NSW in Oz which may be named for the place in Gloucestershire, whatever it is named now or whatever it was, vs being named for one of the many people named Ashcroft. Skookum1 10:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
That would be it, then; Cornwall's family, if you read his bio, were "untitled nobility" and no doubt had a stately home; from what I can see his father was a high-ranking Anglican cleric, and he married the daughter of one as well; it may be that the stately home was better-known at the time of publication (1890) also. Skookum1 21:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Noticed that an external link had been removed here and on other pages by user 'Jjasi', however a user reverted the change as stated the link was to an 'online mag without an objectionable amount of advertising'. Suggest the user who made the revert/undo change is correct - Wiki policy on external links normally to be avoided does indeed state that sites with an objectionable amount of advertising should be avoided - IMO this external link isn't overridden with advertising in the slightest, and is a useful resource for users of this and the other pages in question. Jjasi, perhaps discuss here before removing the links again? Please see.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided. GloucestershireGuardian 01:00, 05 July 2007 (UTC)
The external links on this page are rather odd. You objected to SoGlos on grounds of commercial advertising and that it's intended to make the owner money (!) but you added the local Northcliffe Media outlet, a site that routinely deletes user comments and has shown a great deal of political bias in it's local papers. This site is a commercial site with advertising as well. It's also the only local media group that Wikipedia will recognise so has a monopoly.
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire site should be on a page about the museum and not on this page, unless you want links for all museums in the county.
How about we add back in SoGlos and The Gloucestershire Portal? Alex McKee ( talk) 12:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The article prominently features a photo of Broadway Tower. Although undeniably in the Cotswolds, Broadway is in Worcestershire, not Gloucestershire.
Can someone please confirm whether the tower itself- some 3-4 miles from Broadway village- is in Gloucestershire, and if not, replace the photo with a landmark actually from Gloucestershire? I suggest Gloucester Cathedral, Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham, Bourton-on-the-Water high street or the Subscription Rooms in Stroud. I will go out and take photos of these myself if no legally-viable ones exist. 62.231.149.155 15:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I came here to read about the county, but found a bizarre pushy parents' contest. Is a comparison of local schools' A level statistics really, honestly, one of the most notable things about this historic part of the country? I think this is a dire case of schoolcruft -
Cheltenham has managed to eliminate it amicably. Can we adopt the same model?
Behind The Wall Of Sleep (
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A link to the Flag of Gloucestershire keeps being added to the See also section of the page. I keep removing it as it has absolutely no official standing, has not been officially adopted and is simply as far as I can tell the result of an unofficial competition to design one. Does anyone think we should actually have the link? Jjasi ( talk) 08:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Please join our project to upgrade this article to featured status.
I've flagged this addition because all references to Belton Knapp (currently under discussion in an AfD) come from the same user, none of which seem to be verified. Can someone either confirm or delete this statement (and preferable give their thoughts at the AfD too)? Chris Neville-Smith ( talk) 11:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe anybody consults this article to discover who the notable residents of Gloucestershire are. It's not information that I would expect to find in an encyclopaedia article. Readers can always consult Category:People from Gloucestershire. William Avery ( talk) 11:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
It simply doesn't belong here. There should be a separate list, but it isn't something to be in this article. Each entry should be properly sourced and taken from individual settlement articles. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 14:03, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I've boldly rebranded the list of towns and villages to just towns. There really area lot of villages in the county, so I think listing them here would just be silly. I also changed the wikilink from one to Kingswood, Gloucestershire to Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, which I presume is the one intended.
More interestingly I think though is the remaining contents of the section. The list isn't complete: according to Category:Towns in Gloucestershire this missing towns are Cinderford and Fairford. Although I don't think a list of towns is the best use of space on a page about a county (when we have a perfectly good category), the set of towns is limited, static and can't get out of control. I'll add these two. If anyone knows if this is the full set it would be useful to know. But do we really need a list here at all? Behind The Wall Of Sleep ( talk) 13:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
You might be familiar with this cartoon called "An Enquiry after Stretchit in Gloucestershire or the Sailors Reply" (version from the Royal Museum Greenwich, version from the British Museum).
But is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire or was it invented for the sake of the joke?
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The fact that Jackson once recorded a song mentioning Gloucestershire (see this edit) is not reliably sourced ( WP:YT) and in any case is of no relevance whatever to an encyclopedia article about the county. Agreed? Ghmyrtle ( talk) 09:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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Certainly, policy clearly states that:
Articles about counties should not be split up and should not be disambiguation pages. They should treat the counties as one entity which has changed its boundaries with time. We should not take the minority position that they still exist with the former boundaries.
G-Man 21:01, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The 1972 legislation clearly refered to "administrative counties" as "counties" therefore the use of the term "administrative counties" is obsolete. Legally speaking administrative counties are counties, you may not like this fact but that is how it stands.
This also assumes that traditional counties still legally exist, a view which is far from universally accepted. G-Man 19:12, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
As has been pointed out the 1888 legislation has been overwritten several times, so whether 'traditional counties' still have any legal existance or not is anyone's guess. It is certainly far from the ironclad fact you claim it is. I dont know how long your going to keep up this absurd pretence that medieval county boundaries still exist unchanged in the present tense. If you insist upon adding this claim then it should be stated as an opinion not as a fact G-Man 22:17, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Secondly, this article was using a perfectly sensible compromise of using the ceremonial county for geographic reference. I really dont care what you say, everyone else seems to think they exist.
See this: http://www.tellmeabout.thelocalchannel.co.uk/home.aspx?p=0&m=86
Which states
Ceremonial County – These are areas for which a Lord Lieutenant acts as the Queen’s Deputy – every Administrative County has a ceremonial County of the same name, but the ceremonial county is in many cases larger, as it takes in areas served by Unitary Authorities. (So, for example, the Ceremonial County of Hampshire includes the area administered by Hampshire County Council, plus the Unitary Authority areas of Portsmouth & Southampton.)
And interestingly also states:
Traditional Counties – These are counties that have no LEGAL or administrative standing, but still represent what many people continue to think of as “Counties” (These include Rutland, Berkshire, Herefordshire, Bristol, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire
Pehaps you should also read this: http://jonathan.rawle.org/counties/hist.htm
Which states:
There is much debate as to what constitutes a 'county' today. Really, this is a matter of personal choice and opinion. Some people use the names of unitary authorities as counties, others advocate the use of the so called 'historical counties' which EXISTED before the 1974 reorganisation.
That is merely your interpretation of the law 80.255. As I have clearly demonstrated to you many well informed and knowledgeable people obviously do not share your view that traditional counties still 'exist' (In what form exactly you think that they still exist I really dont know). I am no legal expert but your claim that just because the traditional counties were not formally abolished means that the legislation still applies sounds mightily dodgy to me. The fact that you are refering to reports from 1911 merely reveals the anachronistic nature of your arguments G-Man 11:53, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I have protected this page, as a request was made to Secretlondon, who is not available at present. I have protected the current version. Please continue the discussion on the talk page with a view to resolution of the debate. Reference to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) may prove useful, and in particular Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places) with the discussion which produce those guidelines. Warofdreams 14:25, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
(Sorry for the curious edit description; as I sent "Added links", my browser autofilled the rest from some previous page!) Bill 08:42, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I think there should be a link in here somewhere since it is quite a major feature of the county. Not sure where to add it though, so if anyone would like to give it a go... Robotmannick 10:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I've parked this at the bottom of the page for now. Unfortunately twin infoboxes are pushing the text way down the page (at least in IE 6.0) and the article appears blank unless the reader realises they need to scroll right down.
One solution might be to merge the infoboxes, but there may be other ways of dealing with this. I've experimented a bit but not found a quick solution. Does anyone have any other way of fixing it? Chris Jefferies 07:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Owain, what browser are you using? I'm running IE 6.0 under Windows XP, if you're not seeing the issue at all it would be interesting to know why. Mrsteviec's remark 'Where this has occured on other articles' suggests it's not an unusual problem. Chris Jefferies 08:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, definitely browser dependent, then. I've just tried Mozilla 1.6 on Win2K and it's fine too. Chris Jefferies 09:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
I know some towns/counties have this as a section, not sure how many there are for Glos. However, Sir Chay Blyth (although he was born in Scotland) currently lives in Box, which doesn't currently have a page of it's own. Kert01 14:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
There are many famous residents (allegedly!!!), starting with Charles and Anne of royal fame, Kate Winslet (Actress), Arthur Negus (antiques) actually lived in Cheltenham, Gustav Holst (composer), Sarah Siddons (Actress), Sharron Davies (Swimmer), Liz Hurley (actress/model), Chris Beardshaw (Gardening expert), Ann Robinson (Quiz host), Laurence Llewellyn Bowen (designer).
Hope this helps —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.19.33 ( talk) 19:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi; I just cribbed a bio of a Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, the Hon. Clement Francis Cornwall, who was born in Gloucestershire, but at a place called Ashcroft, which I don't find on your towns list here, or on the list page, or on the South Gloucestershire page. I do find it on a google search as an Ashcroft Road in Gloucestershire. Is this an older or smaller village or locality that's off the beaten track or otherwise obscure today, or has its name changed? Just wondering about dab'ing the link to it if there is one; currently to the Ashcroft disambiguation page, where I've put a mention of "Ashcroft, Gloucestershire" without actually knowing if there is one (ahem) other than because of my source (publ. 1890). It's important to the Cornwall story as the name of the ranch - where English culture was pursued in fortu, with fox-hunting (well, coyote-hunting with foxhounds) and the main venue for horse racing in the BC Interior - was the Ashcroft Manor, and the nearby town of Ashcroft has the same namesake, or rather being named because of the ranch, which predated the town y'see...though just barely...1860s; there's also an Ashcroft NSW in Oz which may be named for the place in Gloucestershire, whatever it is named now or whatever it was, vs being named for one of the many people named Ashcroft. Skookum1 10:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
That would be it, then; Cornwall's family, if you read his bio, were "untitled nobility" and no doubt had a stately home; from what I can see his father was a high-ranking Anglican cleric, and he married the daughter of one as well; it may be that the stately home was better-known at the time of publication (1890) also. Skookum1 21:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Noticed that an external link had been removed here and on other pages by user 'Jjasi', however a user reverted the change as stated the link was to an 'online mag without an objectionable amount of advertising'. Suggest the user who made the revert/undo change is correct - Wiki policy on external links normally to be avoided does indeed state that sites with an objectionable amount of advertising should be avoided - IMO this external link isn't overridden with advertising in the slightest, and is a useful resource for users of this and the other pages in question. Jjasi, perhaps discuss here before removing the links again? Please see.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided. GloucestershireGuardian 01:00, 05 July 2007 (UTC)
The external links on this page are rather odd. You objected to SoGlos on grounds of commercial advertising and that it's intended to make the owner money (!) but you added the local Northcliffe Media outlet, a site that routinely deletes user comments and has shown a great deal of political bias in it's local papers. This site is a commercial site with advertising as well. It's also the only local media group that Wikipedia will recognise so has a monopoly.
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire site should be on a page about the museum and not on this page, unless you want links for all museums in the county.
How about we add back in SoGlos and The Gloucestershire Portal? Alex McKee ( talk) 12:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The article prominently features a photo of Broadway Tower. Although undeniably in the Cotswolds, Broadway is in Worcestershire, not Gloucestershire.
Can someone please confirm whether the tower itself- some 3-4 miles from Broadway village- is in Gloucestershire, and if not, replace the photo with a landmark actually from Gloucestershire? I suggest Gloucester Cathedral, Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham, Bourton-on-the-Water high street or the Subscription Rooms in Stroud. I will go out and take photos of these myself if no legally-viable ones exist. 62.231.149.155 15:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I came here to read about the county, but found a bizarre pushy parents' contest. Is a comparison of local schools' A level statistics really, honestly, one of the most notable things about this historic part of the country? I think this is a dire case of schoolcruft -
Cheltenham has managed to eliminate it amicably. Can we adopt the same model?
Behind The Wall Of Sleep (
talk)
11:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
A link to the Flag of Gloucestershire keeps being added to the See also section of the page. I keep removing it as it has absolutely no official standing, has not been officially adopted and is simply as far as I can tell the result of an unofficial competition to design one. Does anyone think we should actually have the link? Jjasi ( talk) 08:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Please join our project to upgrade this article to featured status.
I've flagged this addition because all references to Belton Knapp (currently under discussion in an AfD) come from the same user, none of which seem to be verified. Can someone either confirm or delete this statement (and preferable give their thoughts at the AfD too)? Chris Neville-Smith ( talk) 11:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe anybody consults this article to discover who the notable residents of Gloucestershire are. It's not information that I would expect to find in an encyclopaedia article. Readers can always consult Category:People from Gloucestershire. William Avery ( talk) 11:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
It simply doesn't belong here. There should be a separate list, but it isn't something to be in this article. Each entry should be properly sourced and taken from individual settlement articles. -- Simple Bob ( talk) 14:03, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I've boldly rebranded the list of towns and villages to just towns. There really area lot of villages in the county, so I think listing them here would just be silly. I also changed the wikilink from one to Kingswood, Gloucestershire to Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, which I presume is the one intended.
More interestingly I think though is the remaining contents of the section. The list isn't complete: according to Category:Towns in Gloucestershire this missing towns are Cinderford and Fairford. Although I don't think a list of towns is the best use of space on a page about a county (when we have a perfectly good category), the set of towns is limited, static and can't get out of control. I'll add these two. If anyone knows if this is the full set it would be useful to know. But do we really need a list here at all? Behind The Wall Of Sleep ( talk) 13:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
You might be familiar with this cartoon called "An Enquiry after Stretchit in Gloucestershire or the Sailors Reply" (version from the Royal Museum Greenwich, version from the British Museum).
But is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire or was it invented for the sake of the joke?
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There have been edits to the article to move 'Gloucester' into the 'West Midlands' region, with such edits being revoked. Some evidence for south west includes:
If you feel Gloucester should be in the West Midlands then please provide citable evidence here so concensus can be reached. Thankyou. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djm-leighpark ( talk • contribs) 06:05, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
The fact that Jackson once recorded a song mentioning Gloucestershire (see this edit) is not reliably sourced ( WP:YT) and in any case is of no relevance whatever to an encyclopedia article about the county. Agreed? Ghmyrtle ( talk) 09:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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